Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, What Is the Fairest Tax of All?

Updated Aug. 27, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

In response to Bruce Bartlett's op-ed ("FairTax, Flawed Tax," Aug. 25), let me say that the FairTax is only flawed if you keep the government the same size or make it bigger than it is now. The purpose of the FairTax is to get the government out of areas it has no business being in: places it was only able to move into by collecting income taxes and incurring a large amount of debt.

The flaw in this article is that it insists on a double standard. What would the income tax rate be if the government did not treat...